Trial reportBMC family practice2014
Intervention to improve social and family support for caregivers of dependent patients: ICIAS study protocol.
Trial report in BMC family practice, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02065427 (Intervention to Improve Social and Family Support for Caregivers of Dependent Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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Intervention to Improve Social and Family Support for Caregivers of Dependent Patients
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Relationship between Burden, Quality of Life and Difficulties of Informal Primary Caregivers in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of the Contributions of Public Policies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- "Why take the patient back home?": Exploring the lived experiences of caregivers of COVID-19-infected individuals in Blantyre, Malawi.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Rate and risk factors of in-hospital and early post-discharge mortality in patients admitted to an internal medicine ward.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2023Article
- Effects of a compassion-based program on the grief experienced by caregivers of people suffering from dementia: a randomized controlled clinical trial.BMC nursing · 2022Article
- Care Dependency of Hospitalized Stroke Patients Based on Family Caregivers' and Nurses' Assessments: A Comparative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Psychiatric distress in family caregivers of patients with COVID-19.Archives of psychiatric nursing · 2022Article
- Experiences of family caregivers of patients with COVID-19.BMC family practice · 2021Article
- Needs and skills of informal caregivers to care for a dependent person: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2019Article
- Living environment, social support, and informal caregiving are associated with healthcare seeking behaviour and adherence to medication treatment: A cross-sectional population study.Health & social care in the community · 2019Article
- Individual, Social, and Societal Correlates of Health-Related Quality of Life Among African American Survivors of Ovarian Cancer: Results from the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2019Article
- Informal caregiving burden and perceived social support in an acute stroke care facility.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2018Article
- Health and wellbeing in informal caregivers and non-caregivers: a comparative cross-sectional study of the Swedish general population.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundDespite the existence of formal professional support services, informal support (mainly family members) continues to be the main source of eldercare, especially for those who are dependent or disabled. Professionals on the primary health care are the ideal choice to educate, provide psychological support, and help to mobilize social resources available to the informal caregiver.Controversy remains concerning the efficiency of multiple interventions, taking a holistic approach to both the patient and caregiver, and optimum utilization of the available community resources. .For this reason our goal is to assess whether an intervention designed to improve the social support for caregivers effectively decreases caregivers burden and improves their quality of life. METHODS/
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designCONTROLled, multicentre, community intervention trial, with patients and their caregivers randomized to the intervention or control group according to their assigned Primary Health Care Team (PHCT). STUDY AREA: Primary Health Care network (9 PHCTs). STUDY
participantsPrimary informal caregivers of patients receiving home health care from participating PHCTs. SAMPLE: Required sample size is 282 caregivers (141 from PHCTs randomized to the intervention group and 141 from PHCTs randomized to the control group.
interventiona) PHCT professionals: standardized training to implement caregivers intervention. b) Caregivers: 1 individualized counselling session, 1 family session, and 4 educational group sessions conducted by participating PHCT professionals; in addition to usual home health care visits, periodic telephone follow-up contact and unlimited telephone support. CONTROL: Caregivers and dependent patients: usual home health care, consisting of bimonthly scheduled visits, follow-up as needed, and additional attention upon request.Data analysisDependent variables: Caregiver burden (short-form Zarit test), caregivers' social support (Medical Outcomes Study), and caregivers' reported quality of life (SF-12)INDEPENDENT VARIABLES: a) Caregiver: sociodemographic data, Goldberg Scale, Apgar family questionnaire, Holmes and Rahe Psychosocial Stress Scale, number of chronic diseases. b) Dependent patient: sociodemographic data, level of dependency (Barthel Index), cognitive impairment (Pfeiffer test). DISCUSSION: If the intervention intended to improve social and family support is effective in reducing the burden on primary informal caregivers of dependent patients, this model can be readily applied throughout usual PHCT clinical practice.
trial registrationClinical trials registrar: NCT02065427.
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